Quotes by random selection

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  Doug Horton
  American Protestant clergyman 1891-1968

  

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  Seeing the light is a choice, not seeing the light is no choice.
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  Victor Hugo
  French writer 1802-1885

  

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  Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his name is the one who most needs shelter.
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  Alan Alda
  American actor, director, screenwriter, and author. 1936-

  

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  Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.
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  Horace
  Roman poet 65-8 BC

  

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  Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.
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  Billy Collins
  American poet 1941-

  

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  It is important for the poet not to be emotional because you cannot see the world clearly with tears in your eyes.
  Source: Interview with Kritya: In the Name of Poetry
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  John Stuart Mill
  English economist 1806-1873

  

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  What ever crushes individuality is despotism, no matter what name it is called.
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  Robert Louis Stevenson
  Scottish writer and poet 1850-1895

  

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  When your toil has been a pleasure, you have not earned money merely, but money, health, delight, and moral profit, all in one.
  Source: Familiar Studies of Men and Books: Stevenson's (2016) 65
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  Simone Weil
  French philosopher 1909-1943

  

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  Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.
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  Abraham Lincoln
  American statesman 1809-1865

  

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  You can 't do the right thing the wrong way.
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  Aristotle
  Greek philosopher 384 BC - 322 BC

  

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  What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.